About us
Flat Earth began in 1983 as a graphics house specialising in print-based design, marketing and presentation with a strong client list based around the music industry.Due to ever increasing use of computer technology we relaunched our boutique enterprise in 1996 as a digital multimedia design service.
The tremendous musical range we covered from Disco Queen Sabrina to Johny Rotten and PIL, from Womble Mike Batt to protest singer Billy Bragg prepared us for the diverse client base we now have. A typical week will find us creating bespoke digital design for children's bubblebath, venture capitalists, music educationists and interactive televison broadcasters. And we even still get asked to design the odd record sleeve.
Shift to Digital
Our background in the music industry has given us rare insight into creating interactive musical software that mixes the genres of entertainment, gaming, education and art.The theory behind multimedia with its ever receding horizons is as important to us as the implementation. Our principals have lectured on digital design at The Royal College of Art, St Martins, The London College of Printing and De Montford University, four of our staff even wrote the U.K.'s first BTEC course in multimedia, and consulted on the MA in Exhibition Design.
For us the digital realm is not just something that we do for a living - it's where we explore, work, rest and play. In the time we're not creating elegant beautiful and streamlined solutions for our clients' needs, we are working on personal projects. Our digital art has been exhibited worldwide at festivals including London's ICA, VideoLisboa, Switzerland's Viper, Montreal Biennale and Brasil's File and has won awards from Bit by Bit and Macromedia. Visit the flat earth lab page for links to our staff's personal pages and engage with some of their on-line art.
The theory behind multimedia with its ever receding horizons is as important to us as the implementation. Our principals have lectured on digital design at The Royal College of Art, St Martins, The London College of Printing and De Montford University, four of our staff even wrote the U.K.'s first BTEC course in multimedia, and consulted on the MA in Exhibition Design.
This enthusiasm spills out into the commercial work we deliver and it is the products, games and applications we create that should speak for us rather than our own web site so please visit the portfolio section for examples of our latest work on-line.
